New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-07
SUNDAY EDITION.
AUGUST 2, 1897.
THE CITY OF INTRIGUE.
NINE. ROUvIER BOYCOTrED-M. ROCHE.
FORTS ODD GENIUS.

| lFRoM TaE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT THE rRTnrSgl
| PARIS. July 90
Everything is now qnict, not 70 say duil. But
one teels that the veriest trife may bring down q
| Storm Paris is sullen and ennry6s. I won't say
vanity but just pride is hurt the first official lady
| in the land, after Mesdames Grcvy and Fioquct
beng woman who stood her trial in felon's
| dock, had a success of beauty" on the jury, and
for the thirtyfve years that ensued lived Of
amphibious life between art and galiaary. and
wound M by marrying her present husband. who
! rs Young enough to be her There extcnu-
ating circum stan in her favor, but there were
none III his and N. Rocbefos. - perfectly justified
| in treating hin as an Aphonse" The ladies OF
the Corps DiplomatIqae knowing all thus, avoided
on the day of the review the State Tribune as
though smallpox were known TO have broken out
IN it. AS it happened. the Objectionable ex-beauty
did notshow her face, and Mesdamcs Grovy. VIII
sou and Floquet who were there had no reason for
feeling humIatat. The Presiden tial party in the
State Tribune looked not exactly care crazed but
too much absorbed in anxcties Of their own to
have full consciousness OF what going on
! around them and before their eyes
have agreeable memories of the VI. Grevy OF
former and happier times. But there seems little in
common between him and the person from whom all
| life mere vegetative existence has fed, who
was the chief man ~ The review Thursday aid
was closely guarded rs the Gar of All the Rus
sias on bis coronatioD day. THE eye was sunlxsu
and unobservant and the palior and rigid facic,
| showed that he should not be too severely blamed
for creating the present Ministry Of bankrupts rath
or outside than inside Parliamentary rules aud
tanly IN the hope of destroying the most honest
section Of the Republican party--the TO which
NJ. Clemenceau and General BouIanger belong. The
| life was frightened out Of the poor ofd man with
bogies raised on purpose by the Ferryites
and by the danger Of an increased tax Oh
owners of house Droperty-of which NJ
Grevy is very considerable one, he having some
Of the finest houses in the Boulevard de Courcelles,
opposite the beautiful Monceau Park others al ths
Trocadero. Others in the Boulevard Malesherbes
and Others in the Rue yzeley close to it. Thcg are
all situated In the most desirable parts OF the best
localities. and were built for tine purpose of being
let to wealthy tenants The German scare not
so much got mp by Prince Bismarck rs by the Fer.
rytcs VI. de Lesseps and VI. Kerbette. who saw
that they could more advantagcously work Ger
many at Ccnstantinople against British power in
Egypt than Russia II of course they subseryi-
| ent to Prince Bismarck. They seized on the popu-
| larty of General Boulanger 10 alarm the Govern
meut of the German Empire. aud got things into
such groove at Berlin that poor Old u.
Grevy was really persuaded there would be
war between France and Germany in
week il General Boulangcr, after
the Goblet Ministry went out, csmo in again.
| With this NJ. Rouvier. having pulled the c0nyen-
| tons with the great railway companies through
| the Chambers. by dint Of corruption, was the MAJ
| of the Rothschds and they meant to corner the
| Government so long as creature Of theirs was
not Financial Minister. IL Did not matter to them
| whether 1t was NJ. Leon Say or ". Rouycr. On
| the whole perhaps the latter would be preferable
! because he was not openly and closely associated
with them Now NJ Wilson was deep III game Of
options and he wanted the Bourse to DO pretty
| lively. There was last aud not least the Nine.
| Jane Hading influence. She is Marseillaise aud
| NJ. Rouvier u a aarseIliais She leads u Wilson
| by the nose and he conducts VI. Clevy whltherso-
ever he wants him to co. All Paris IL aware OF these
| wheels within wheels, this complication OF In
| trgues and this Executive aud Parliamentary pes
| tiferOusuess. 49,
| In connection with the review and the 'poliicG
situation generally, the place VI. Rochefort holds
deserves 70 DC looked into and the man himself ex-
ahmed Rochcfort is better than he looks aud yet
| not good enough 10 weld great influence. Nor IN
any other time would he be power. lie wouid
| alw avs, however be singular being and man OF
great marx. not becanse of his eeceutricIty and
droliery of manner or OF the gail and yitri9l ~
which he dips his PEN but because OF his lucid
glance at mcn and things in general bis inderead-
ence and he virtues that underlie his aEstocratic
| tastes and B0hemIansn There was never more
tender on a more devoted parent than he Is to his
three Children who were all by different mothers
! IN the most grinding poverty never
occurred to hin, to cas- them Oh, although he could
have done SO with IMMUNITY. lie IS pure-blooaed
Partisan About the worst feature IN his characters
| leck essneSs in attack Bnt VOltaife had the same
defect. But VI. Rochciori Is generally right IN hls
| attacks. lie has a genius Tor seeing raw and
| hitting it, lie is one of tie most independent Dlen
that lived and IS under no temptation TO conrt
any one out DemoS s;ho cannot 10 wi'hon q Tue
| kochelort." IL is pick-me-up dram Demos Is
not by any means its only reader although nc
alone unless Those who are attacke1l tninAs u no
| mere laughing matter NJ Rocheiorps onslaughts
| on NJ. Gambetta and the various eading Gam
bettists on NJ. Ferry and his partlsans on d. WI
| son. aud now ana then on NJ. CreVy andhOw on ".
Rouver and his Cabinet, are jam TO the Orieanists
and the BonapaItists. The members OF the Corps
| Diplomatique roar laughing over them, and lie poi-
| fare truly sand to-day hat there is not a iampc0u
| by VI. Rocheort Oh any French statesman mat
| Prince Bismarck les not chpckle over IL must %
| said that NJ. Rocbcfort never fays wlthoui good
| cause He has never, so far as know, attackede
truly great good man, and he Is very faithful IN
| friendship He has no principle OF any sot., Dns
dslikes hat is groyclng. inflated. preteniious OF
| vie-unless IN the shape Of deni-mondahe. VI.
Rochefort has any mount OF the heat which makes
| Leading articles pleasant reading and fhat ca
pacIty SO needful IN journalism, OF hitting the ,ron
wler 10 Is red hot. HIS quick, lucid ken ehapIes
him to do this and his drGil p9paseoogy ss'
NJ Rochefort dotes on General Boulangcr. whose
offhanded amiabiiiiy bad made a conquest OF nm
he hates NJ. Ferry, because there IS the triple
| "cuteness of the Italian, the Jew and the Lor-
raIncr III him and he is of he cafe waiter type"tynl
garity. The artist that is in NJ Rochetort ana me
essentially French and arstocratic in his character
keep deep gulf fixed between him and the man
of Ionqun,r who IS certainly one OF tue most uu'
scrupuious and audaci0us of politicians. and has
natural bias favor of despotisu. not for great out
mean objects N. Rochefort sees tbat NJ; houvier
manUnvring 10 come III as President of the Repub-
lie when NJ Grevy dies, by coalition, with tle
Royallsts and Oppor,unists against el,her ~: 20
Freycinet or NJ Foquet NJ. de Freycnet got 10
the face of the toughest opposition the bill TO ex
pei the heads OF dynastic families through the
Senate lie nailed his cOlors 10 that mast. De-
lieve that NJ Ferry and NJ Rouvier are willing 70
make any concessions to Tie RoyIlsts and clergy -,
NJ do Freycinet and NJ FlOquet is irue-bue
Rcpnbican of the Radical line. General Bouangete
would have no chance If the next Congress ava not
decree that the Presidential election Is TO go ~
universal suffrage But there, Is no reason ior